The Acrolaw Blog is a resource for lawyers, law firms, paralegals, legal IT pros and anyone interested in the use of Acrobat in the legal community. Rick Borstein, blog author, is a Principal Solutions Consultant with Adobe Systems Incorporated.

To greatly speed up searching of large PDF Packages, embed a Full Text Index.

Click the Cover Page icon in the Package window:

Then, choose:

Advanced—> Document Processing—> Manage Embedded Index…

Conclusions

Packages aren’t static containers like zip archives. Using Acrobat, you can easily add or delete documents and add your thoughts—in the form of annotations—to the documents inside. The documents inside the PDF package may be easily searched, including the comments.

In my next article in this series, I’ll cover how to:

Use the spreadsheet-like Top View to code and qualify documents inside a package

Use bookmarks to “hot link” to key passages within documents across a package